Hi. I'm in the process of installing debian stable. I want to use the entire disk and get it encrypted. So I picked the "Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM" option during the "Partition disks" step. It's globally ok except that it creates a swap partition. I would like to remove it, but I don't find how. Is it possible from the installer?

according to the O'Reilly bash book, I should be able to create a while loop like so: "while getopts ":mv" opt ; do" but the loop never get entered. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my use of getopts?

yes, but at the same time as your question popped up in the window, I was running the command with two arguements just to see. When I run two arguements, the second gets read, so something is eating my first argement before it gets to the while loop

this is weird. If I open a fresh terminal and run the command, it enters the while loop as expected. If I rerun the same command in the same terminal, it only prints debugging lines 1 and 4. I have to open a fresh shell to get it to behave as wanted, subsequent runs don't seem to enter the while loop unless I add options to the command line

Is this a fair statement to make? The desktop and server space are occupied almost entirely by only a handful of operating systems. However, there are hundreds of operating systems out there. Most of the operating systems out there are GNU/Linux based and most of those are Debian based.

sqrt{not}: adding #!/bin/bash did nothing, but adding OPTIND=1 did the trick. But, I thought one of the whole points of getopts was that it kept track of and modified accordingly that variable. I'm not sure I understand why I have to reset it in subsequent runs of the function, but it works. Thanks

i look at some of the stuff used in shell progs nowadays, and i wonder about those who complain perl is cryptic looking. it may be powerful string handling, but it's really bizarre and hard for me to learn compared to perl's relative simplicity.

Is this a fair statement to make? The desktop and server space are occupied almost entirely by only a handful of operating systems. However, there are hundreds of operating systems out there. Most of the operating systems out there are GNU/Linux based and most of those are Debian based.

mnuhmnuh, It seems another library is also not working. I must have screwed something up so badly that even deleting my project and the stuff in ~/.config related to it and apt-get purge kdevelop all don't fix it.

After a while my hexchat exits because a process seems to sigterm it (mantainer says it's related to dbus and glib) here's the debugger output and dbus-monitor output during the event. What should I do next? https://paste.debian.net/hidden/cf08fc0f/